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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Has the Earth rotated slightly off-axis lately, or is it just me? Here are four current automotive stories that pretty much make the case for rotational anomaly.

CRUZE CONTROL?

Can you imagine driving your new car – at speed – and tipping it into a bend in the road … only to have the steering wheel come off in your hand? What do you do next? (Besides pray the airbag and ESC modules were installed properly, and that the engineers who designed the crumple zones really were paying attention that day?) Advanced driving 101 comes up empty handed on what to do here.

It’s Keystone Cops stuff, but in the USA, there’s one driver today who doesn’t have to imagine it – because they’ve experienced it firsthand. As a consequence, GM is recalling 2100 of its popular Chevy Cruzes after tracing this particular fault, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apparently, the wrong wheel was fitted to the vehicle on the assembly line. The wheel was subsequently replaced in the quality-control process … but then not reattached properly, kind of making a mockery of that term/process.